Intel Iris Xe GPUs on Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs Get first official driver support

Intel Iris Xe GPUs on Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs Get first official driver support

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Intel Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs finally receive their first official graphics driver for the Iris Xe GPU

11th Generation Intel Core desktop processors (codenamed “Rocket Lake-S”) offer increased performance and speed. Intel released the processors on March 16, 2021. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

Intel released the first official graphics driver for its Rocket Lake CPUs with the integrated Iris Xe GPUs. At launch, the Rocket Lake line was the first desktop family to introduce the new Iris Xe (Xe-LP) graphics architecture, but it took some days for Intel to get official driver support for them.

Intel Iris Xe GPUs on Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs Get first official graphics driver support

Well, Intel finally released the graphics drivers for its Iris Xe GPUs featured on Rocket Lake CPUs. The 27.20.100.9316 is 426 MB in size, but the most interesting part is that the date listed is March 3, 2021. This suggests that, although support for Intel Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs is new, the driver itself is not technically different than those already available for Iris Xe GPUs. Intel simply added support for Rocket Lake CPUs to its existing driver package and ended the day and makes sense, considering that all Iris Xe chips are essentially based on the same GPU Xe architecture -LP.

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The following are the release notes for the Intel graphics driver itself:

LIGHTS

  • Correction for flaw observed during launch Outriders * on Intel Iris Xand Maximum graphics.
  • Improved game load times for Death Stranding *
  • Stability fixes for DaVinci Resolve * on Intel Iris Xand Maximum graphics.

IMPROVEMENTS

  • Improved game load times for Death Stranding* on Intel Iris Xand graphics.

DEVELOPER HIGHLIGHTS

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  • Support for the new Level Zero loader layer tracking API.

Install Intel Driver & Support Assistant, which automatically checks drivers regularly and can provide notifications when new drivers become available. This is a DCH driver. Click for more information about DCH drivers

Supported operating system versions

Operating system reference:

  • Microsoft Windows 10-64 – Fall Creators Update (1709) (RS3)
  • Microsoft Windows 10-64 – April 2018 update (1803) (RS4)
  • Microsoft Windows 10-64 – October 2018 update (1809) (RS5)
  • Microsoft Windows 10-64 – May 2019 Update (1903) (19H1)
  • Microsoft Windows 10-64 – November 2019 update (1909) (19H2)
  • Microsoft Windows 10-64 – May 2020 (2004) update (20H1)
  • Microsoft Windows 10-64 – October 2020 update (20H2)

Platform (operating system support)

  • 6th Gen Core (Codename Skylake) (RS3 +) processor family
  • 7th Gen Core (Codename Kaby Lake) (RS3 +) processor family
  • 8th Gen Core processor family (code-named Kaby Lake-R, Coffee Lake) (RS3 +)
  • 9th Generation Core processor family (Codename Coffee Lake-R) (RS3 +)
  • Lake Apollo (RS3 +)
  • Amber Lake (RS3 +)
  • Lake Gemini (RS3 +)
  • Whiskey Lake (RS3 +)
  • Comet Lake (RS3 +)
  • 10th Generation Core processor family (Codename Ice Lake) (RS3 +)
  • Core processor with Intel Hybrid technology (Codename Lakefield) (19H2 +)
  • Pentium processor family (codenamed Jasper Lake) (19H2 +)
  • Celeron processor family (codenamed Jasper Lake) (19H2 +)
  • Gen Intel Core processor family (codenamed Tiger Lake) (19H2 +)
  • Family of dedicated graphics Iris Xe (codename DG1) (20H1 +)
  • 11th generation Intel Core processor family (Codename Rocket Lake) (20H2 +)

If you are running an Intel Rocket Lake Desktop CPU and make any use of the Iris Xe chip present on it, it is essential that you install these drivers. You can download them here.

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